Los
Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa supports while encouraging over
two million illegal aliens in the City of Angels. He�s not too happy,
however, about the 20,000 Mexican and Central American gang-bangers
wreaking havoc in his streets where cops fear to tread. L.A. jails
bursting with convicted alien felons thrills him not one peso! Bankrupting
hospitals and failing schools illustrate his incompetence.

This
week, he proudly announced another first: Latin American scourge turning
up in U.S. immigrants. In L.A., the nation's first clinic opens to
treat deadly insect-borne Chagas disease. As little as ten years ago,
no one ever heard of Chagas disease in the United States.

Los
Angeles journalist Mary Engel reported, �A Los Angeles County hospital
has opened the first clinic in the country devoted to studying and
treating Chagas disease, a deadly parasitic illness that has long
been the leading cause of heart failure in Latin America and is now
being seen in (illegal) migrant communities in the United States.�

Legal
immigrants enjoy health screenings before entering the United States.
I wrote about it four years ago as did the late Dr. Madeleine Cosman.
As to Chagas, it�s a T-cruzi parasite that infects between 14 and
18 million people in South America. It kills 50,000 annually. (Source:
Carlos Bastien, �Kiss of Death�)

�Unless
Chagas is treated early, little can be done to halt its advance,�
Engle reported. �Yet because 10 to 20 years can pass before heart
or gastrointestinal complications develop, many people don't realize
they're infected with what has been called a silent killer. Like Lyme
disease or malaria, Chagas is a vector-borne illness, meaning that
it is transmitted by insects, not person-to-person contact.�

�By
the end of October, 253 people in 30 states had tested positive for
Chagas,� according to data compiled by the American Association of
Blood Banks.

�The
prevalence nationwide is estimated to be about 1 in 30,000 donors,
and about 1 in 7,000 in Los Angeles,� said Dr. Susan Stramer, executive
scientific officer for the American Red Cross.�

What
does this report tell you? It means third world diseases spread through
America like California wildfires. It means you and your family stand
at risk. Regarding illegals, George Bush said, �They do the jobs that
American citizens won�t do.� What Bush might instead say, �They bring
you the diseases that you wouldn�t die from if I did my job to protect
our nation�s borders.�

Tuberculosis
kills two million people annually worldwide!

Not
to be outdone by illegals working in its city, in Decatur, Georgia--at
one chicken plant, 212 workers, all illegal aliens, tested positive
for tuberculosis last week.

As
reported by Eric Fleischauer in the Decatur Daily, �All of the employees
at the Wayne Farms fresh processing plant in Decatur have received
tuberculosis skin tests and 212 of them tested positive.�

Scott
Jones, state director of public health, said, �All 165 employees with
positive TB results in the most recent tests would receive chest X-rays
on Thursday. Doctors will evaluate those X-rays early next week to
determine if any of them have signs of active TB disease.�

It
makes you wonder why Wayne Farms hired so many illegal aliens without
a health screening. They place their legal employees at risk as well
as the public.

Fleischauer
reported, �In addition to testing other employees at the fresh processing
plant, health officials said they tested all others known to have
had contact with the two men (with active TB). Jones refused to say
whether either individual has school-age children.�

"The
majority of the folks that we're dealing with in this situation are
foreign born," Jones said. "I would expect about 30 percent of them
to test positive."

According
to the Centers for Disease Control, �Fifteen minutes of close contact
with a person who has active TB disease will cause up to 50 percent
of people to become infected.�

For
anyone who read my column three years ago, it reported that we imported
16,000 new cases of TB from illegals crossing over our borders unscreened
for health purposes. Every infected illegal infects between 10 and
50 other Americans depending on public contact. Additionally, their
2.0 million children attend schools where American children become
vulnerable to contracting TB.

Most
alarming of all, tuberculosis kills nearly two million people worldwide
annually. (Source: World Health Organization)

Of
less note to Americans, leprosy, now known as Hansen�s disease affected
only 900 Americans in the last 40 years. Today, via illegal migrants
from India, Brazil and the Caribbean, according to the New York Times
report by Sharon Lerner, 7,000 new cases turned up on the East Coast.
Leprosy has become endemic to the East Coast for the first time in
the history of the United States.

Your
tax dollars pay for all treatments and the 11 new clinics set up to
deal with that ancient disease now settling into the heart of America.

On
top of that, thousands of cases of hepatitis �C� cross over U.S. borders
annually in the bodies of illegal aliens. Where do they work? They
work in hotels, restaurants, fast food, construction and schools.

It�s
a matter of time before someone with Avian flu or some other highly
contagious disease steps illegally into the United States. No way
to combat that pandemic waiting to happen! Not to be outdone, a person(s)
with multiple drug resistant TB could make their way to our shores
at any time with our wide open borders.

While
our president and Congress remain oblivious and insulated from the
killings, robberies, drug trade, bankrupt school systems, hospitals
collapsing and overloaded illegal alien prison populations�they cannot,
nor will their children, remain immune to the diseases imported by
tens of thousands annually.

Instead
of Joe Citizen�s kids contracting TB, Chagas, hepatitis and other
diseases-- Jenna Bush, Dick Cheney�s daughter or her children, Mayor
Villaraigosa�s wife (lovers), Governor Spitzer of New York or Senator
John McCain, Teddy Kennedy and the like will not be able to outrun
viruses because they travel in the air. It�ll be interesting to see
how fast our president and Congress close our borders to stop this
massive invasion of our country�that sooner or later�will affect them
like it�s already affecting the rest of us.

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The
simple reasonable answer to protect our communities� health means
we must screen every single individual person entering this country
as an immigrant. Legal entry alone assures screenings to protect this
nation. Why isn�t the obvious so obvious to Bush and Congress?

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; �STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE�; �IMMIGRATION�S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES�; �MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND�A TEEN NOVEL�; �BICYCLING AROUND THE
WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION�; �AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTIA.�
His next book: �TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.� He lives
in Denver, Colorado.

While
our president and Congress remain oblivious and insulated from the killings,
robberies, drug trade, bankrupt school systems, hospitals collapsing and
overloaded illegal alien prison populations�they cannot, nor will their
children, remain immune to the diseases imported by tens of thousands
annually.